It’s a nightmare. Emperor has no clothes. Most of us know iit but have no way of registering that meaningfully. No ability to point it out. I’m not a donor or a ticketed fan. I’ll just stop watching except in situations where alcohol flows freely and we can all laugh at the dunces. From my time observing this board ... I’m in awe of the knowledge and the passion ... but you deserve more and this mother fucker gotta get got. I’m out. Happy New Year. I’m a new Browns fan and I love Matt Campbell. He’s a dude. He spoke to me through the TV screen last night.
I don’t care if it’s a guy named Pep or Zep or Shep - I just want to see an offense that is a point of pride, not a cause for consternation. An offense that strikes fear, that strikes with speed and fury and surgical precision. Gimme that.
The rest of the B1G won’t take this lying down. Avenge Purdue!!! I’m sure that will happen. Sure as the sun rises in the (B1G) East and sets in the (B1G) West lol. Just kidding. F these guys. And Iowa probably gets jail sexed as well.
Upon further review, if only the Cheez-It Bowl had gotten canceled due to whatever happens in the desert southwest ... a Chupacabra warning or a big sale down at Unpainted Arizona
Awesomo48 because the Awesomo episode of South Park was the inspiration for a hilariously failed Halloween costume in 2006, which fueled one of the drunkest drunken binges ever. No animals were harmed in the making. Many prayers of thanks that Facebook Live and the whole thing of people phone videoing stuff was not yet a big thing. I would/could never live that 12-hour period of my life down. I was disappointed but I guess not surprised to see that another Awesomo had roamed this sight before.
Picture of Dan Aykroyd aka salmon beard Santa just because it's holiday appropriate and his words of iron (before leaping off the table and lurching out into the night) still ring true today - "You'll all be sorry. You'll all be very, very sorry!"
Again, this was great stuff. Can we talk, though, about some big burrs that get under our saddles as fans and sophisticated consumers of this brand we call Michigan football?
Rashan Gary ... probably enough has been said. His contributions were good and steady and of value. But the way he has been deployed and the results he produced have always been somewhat puzzling. He is a freak athlete, a mismatch in every way. Yet we only got fleeting glimpses on rare occasions of him taking over a game. One of the most common retorts from those in the know has been that he "eats up double teams and triple teams." So did Jenna Jameson. I think she's retired now but she had a long and lucrative career.
Tarik Black ... best receiver on the team. We were all glad to have him back on the field and remain so. But 2 catches for 25 yards over the course of Penn State, Rutgers, Indiana and Ohio State? In the immortal words of Michael Irvin - "Come on, man!" What the hell is up here? If he's the best receiver ... while DPJ and Nico Collins are also very good and ascending ... shouldn't some production ... ANY production ... be there?
Devin Gil ... why?
Quinn Nordin, a high-end weapon of a kicker breaks himself mentally mid-season and 6-7 weeks later he's still broken? How is that? Not a thing against Jake Moody. They are very fortunate to have him.
Screen game. Sophisticated screen game with all kinds of options out of all kinds of sets. Remember when Harbaugh arrived and that was one of his things, along with QB development? Where has this gone?
Thanks for this. It was a treasure. Well constructed and well written. I spent the entire week leading up to The Game drawing parallels to a cinematic treasure "The Great White Hype." Everything that happened in the run up to the game felt like it came straight out of Reverend Sultan's (Samuel L. at his finest) promotional machinery. I kept thinking Ohio State was James "The Grim Reaper" Roper (Damon Wayans). Laying on the couch eating pudding and smoking Kools. But he was the reigning champ and when that bell rang, he just walked out and put Irish Terry Conklin (Meeechigan) to sleep.
I also had terror visions of Jim Harbaugh as General Patton, sitting there in his cufflinks and pearl-handled revolvers with a glass of cognac reading up on his rival Herr Erwin ... Urban ... Rommel. In the end, he would vanquish Rommel, masterfully using his tanks to outmaneuver Rommel's tanks in the Horseshoe and then exclaiming "Rommel, you magnificent bastard, I read your book!!!"
Only problem is when the battle really happened, Rommel was using drone strikes and SAMs against Jimmy's Pershings and howitzers. It pretty much came to pass.
I certainly agree with your assertion that Michigan prepared for this game, just like Irish Terry trained his ass off for the fight and looked every inch the part coming in. But they clearly prepared wrong. For example, I refuse to believe Ambry Thomas just does whatever he wants when he ball is kicked to him and his decisions on kick returns Saturday must have been at least somewhat guided by some kind of emphasized coaching point. I surmise that UM thought they had something there and could consistently exploit OSU's kick coverage. The polar opposite turned out to be true and UM paid for it with horrible field position on multiple occasions. Their assumptions, and consequently their preparation, turned out to be dead wrong and led to disastrous results. Defense ... looks like the same thing. They thought they had the antidote, but it was clear from the first crossing route that they were going to get bit and die from the poison.
Same age. Same feelings. Same recent memories. Grew up going to watch Mike Jolly, our neighborhood hero, play high school football and then followed every possible exploit when he was at the University of Michigan. Took pride in coaches (McCartney, Herrmann) teammates (LaFountaine) and guys from my school (Dohring, Rekowski, and now Aidan Hutchinson) who made or are making their mark as Wolverines.
Preach. Offense - do what you want to do by making the defense unsure of what you’re doing. Defense - stop the offense from doing what they want to do by making them unsure of how you’re countering and where you’re conceding
I was fortunate, as it turned out, to miss the game live as it unfolded. Told my eldest son to stop texting me about The Game because I was helping my youngest sell wreaths for his scout troop. The last text my eldest sent me came around halftime and just said “it’s a roller coaster.” I got home and went to watch the game from start to finish, secure in successfully maintaining blissful ignorance. One problem. I left the TV on Fox from the night before. The game was not quite done and the first thing that appeared when I switched it on was a roiling sea of cheering OSU fans with the score 62-32 at the bottom of the screen. I died a little, then went to my recorded portion of the game and hit delete.
BTN just showed it in condensed format this morning and I made myself watch. The game plan was mystifying and bad. As mystifying as Tarik Black being the consensus top receiver on this squad yet finishing the final 4 games in which he played with a whopping 2 catches for 25 yards. The game plan betrayed the talent on both sides of the ball and poor coaching decisions were present in the call to chase points at the end of the 2nd quarter, and the defense that allowed 74 yards to be covered in 39 seconds before halftime. There were coachable and correctable errors (Ambry Thomas) that happened repeatedly. There were also guys playing their asses off and winning, like DPJ and Nico Collins.
In the end, all 3 phases worked in unison to let each other down and put immense pressure on each other. It was a total fail overall but strangely not as bad as I expected. In many ways it followed the narrative of every loss to OSU (and other big games/bowl games). You could pick out a handful of individual plays (Gentry’s drops top the list), change them and significantly alter the trajectory and tenor of the game. I always remember the 2013 Devin Gardner Superman game where he gacks up the ball in the middle of the field w UM up and driving as a prime example of same. And of course OSU capitalized on that to change the game. In some respects, that’s just football. That’s what determines most games. But to have those things seemingly always end up breaking against UM ... no words
Better prepared, better talented, better schemed team won yesterday. The maligned Malik Harrison (look - pudding!!!) was the perfect example.
Personally, I look forward to the Bible black void of nothingness in a space previously devoted to countless thoughts, and filled with feelings of joy, excitement, optimism and anticipation. The evil Urbsei just turned Ann Arbor into the Sept of Baelor and the names/faces I associated with Michigan football into the Rains of Castermere.
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It’s a nightmare. Emperor has no clothes. Most of us know iit but have no way of registering that meaningfully. No ability to point it out. I’m not a donor or a ticketed fan. I’ll just stop watching except in situations where alcohol flows freely and we can all laugh at the dunces. From my time observing this board ... I’m in awe of the knowledge and the passion ... but you deserve more and this mother fucker gotta get got. I’m out. Happy New Year. I’m a new Browns fan and I love Matt Campbell. He’s a dude. He spoke to me through the TV screen last night.
4 minute offense! Woo!
If I’m gonna die for a word, my word is poontang
I don’t care if it’s a guy named Pep or Zep or Shep - I just want to see an offense that is a point of pride, not a cause for consternation. An offense that strikes fear, that strikes with speed and fury and surgical precision. Gimme that.
Why bother punting?
Purdue gets the ball with a chance to cut into that deficit to start the second half. Stay tuned!
The rest of the B1G won’t take this lying down. Avenge Purdue!!! I’m sure that will happen. Sure as the sun rises in the (B1G) East and sets in the (B1G) West lol. Just kidding. F these guys. And Iowa probably gets jail sexed as well.
Uh ... can we do a “due to time constraints, we now move ahead to later action in the game?”
Purdue should let Shooter from “Hoosiers” take over the defense
No sign of that being remotely possible lol
Edit: he does everything else pretty freakin good though
Rondell Moore throws like Julius Peppers might have thrown if that aspect of the Pep Cat had ever been unveiled
Purdue down a buck fiddy
Varsity vs JV here. Nice crowd. Will clear out some at halftime. Purdue is gonna be down fiddy.
Upon further review, if only the Cheez-It Bowl had gotten canceled due to whatever happens in the desert southwest ... a Chupacabra warning or a big sale down at Unpainted Arizona
This cannot happen to the Cheez-It Bowl. America needs a Cheez-It Bowl.
So Dillon's career bowl record is going to be 0-1
Awesomo48 because the Awesomo episode of South Park was the inspiration for a hilariously failed Halloween costume in 2006, which fueled one of the drunkest drunken binges ever. No animals were harmed in the making. Many prayers of thanks that Facebook Live and the whole thing of people phone videoing stuff was not yet a big thing. I would/could never live that 12-hour period of my life down. I was disappointed but I guess not surprised to see that another Awesomo had roamed this sight before.
Picture of Dan Aykroyd aka salmon beard Santa just because it's holiday appropriate and his words of iron (before leaping off the table and lurching out into the night) still ring true today - "You'll all be sorry. You'll all be very, very sorry!"
Just another day in Hamster Dam
Again, this was great stuff. Can we talk, though, about some big burrs that get under our saddles as fans and sophisticated consumers of this brand we call Michigan football?
Rashan Gary ... probably enough has been said. His contributions were good and steady and of value. But the way he has been deployed and the results he produced have always been somewhat puzzling. He is a freak athlete, a mismatch in every way. Yet we only got fleeting glimpses on rare occasions of him taking over a game. One of the most common retorts from those in the know has been that he "eats up double teams and triple teams." So did Jenna Jameson. I think she's retired now but she had a long and lucrative career.
Tarik Black ... best receiver on the team. We were all glad to have him back on the field and remain so. But 2 catches for 25 yards over the course of Penn State, Rutgers, Indiana and Ohio State? In the immortal words of Michael Irvin - "Come on, man!" What the hell is up here? If he's the best receiver ... while DPJ and Nico Collins are also very good and ascending ... shouldn't some production ... ANY production ... be there?
Devin Gil ... why?
Quinn Nordin, a high-end weapon of a kicker breaks himself mentally mid-season and 6-7 weeks later he's still broken? How is that? Not a thing against Jake Moody. They are very fortunate to have him.
Screen game. Sophisticated screen game with all kinds of options out of all kinds of sets. Remember when Harbaugh arrived and that was one of his things, along with QB development? Where has this gone?
Thanks for this. It was a treasure. Well constructed and well written. I spent the entire week leading up to The Game drawing parallels to a cinematic treasure "The Great White Hype." Everything that happened in the run up to the game felt like it came straight out of Reverend Sultan's (Samuel L. at his finest) promotional machinery. I kept thinking Ohio State was James "The Grim Reaper" Roper (Damon Wayans). Laying on the couch eating pudding and smoking Kools. But he was the reigning champ and when that bell rang, he just walked out and put Irish Terry Conklin (Meeechigan) to sleep.
I also had terror visions of Jim Harbaugh as General Patton, sitting there in his cufflinks and pearl-handled revolvers with a glass of cognac reading up on his rival Herr Erwin ... Urban ... Rommel. In the end, he would vanquish Rommel, masterfully using his tanks to outmaneuver Rommel's tanks in the Horseshoe and then exclaiming "Rommel, you magnificent bastard, I read your book!!!"
Only problem is when the battle really happened, Rommel was using drone strikes and SAMs against Jimmy's Pershings and howitzers. It pretty much came to pass.
I certainly agree with your assertion that Michigan prepared for this game, just like Irish Terry trained his ass off for the fight and looked every inch the part coming in. But they clearly prepared wrong. For example, I refuse to believe Ambry Thomas just does whatever he wants when he ball is kicked to him and his decisions on kick returns Saturday must have been at least somewhat guided by some kind of emphasized coaching point. I surmise that UM thought they had something there and could consistently exploit OSU's kick coverage. The polar opposite turned out to be true and UM paid for it with horrible field position on multiple occasions. Their assumptions, and consequently their preparation, turned out to be dead wrong and led to disastrous results. Defense ... looks like the same thing. They thought they had the antidote, but it was clear from the first crossing route that they were going to get bit and die from the poison.
Same age. Same feelings. Same recent memories. Grew up going to watch Mike Jolly, our neighborhood hero, play high school football and then followed every possible exploit when he was at the University of Michigan. Took pride in coaches (McCartney, Herrmann) teammates (LaFountaine) and guys from my school (Dohring, Rekowski, and now Aidan Hutchinson) who made or are making their mark as Wolverines.
Preach. Offense - do what you want to do by making the defense unsure of what you’re doing. Defense - stop the offense from doing what they want to do by making them unsure of how you’re countering and where you’re conceding
I was fortunate, as it turned out, to miss the game live as it unfolded. Told my eldest son to stop texting me about The Game because I was helping my youngest sell wreaths for his scout troop. The last text my eldest sent me came around halftime and just said “it’s a roller coaster.” I got home and went to watch the game from start to finish, secure in successfully maintaining blissful ignorance. One problem. I left the TV on Fox from the night before. The game was not quite done and the first thing that appeared when I switched it on was a roiling sea of cheering OSU fans with the score 62-32 at the bottom of the screen. I died a little, then went to my recorded portion of the game and hit delete.
BTN just showed it in condensed format this morning and I made myself watch. The game plan was mystifying and bad. As mystifying as Tarik Black being the consensus top receiver on this squad yet finishing the final 4 games in which he played with a whopping 2 catches for 25 yards. The game plan betrayed the talent on both sides of the ball and poor coaching decisions were present in the call to chase points at the end of the 2nd quarter, and the defense that allowed 74 yards to be covered in 39 seconds before halftime. There were coachable and correctable errors (Ambry Thomas) that happened repeatedly. There were also guys playing their asses off and winning, like DPJ and Nico Collins.
In the end, all 3 phases worked in unison to let each other down and put immense pressure on each other. It was a total fail overall but strangely not as bad as I expected. In many ways it followed the narrative of every loss to OSU (and other big games/bowl games). You could pick out a handful of individual plays (Gentry’s drops top the list), change them and significantly alter the trajectory and tenor of the game. I always remember the 2013 Devin Gardner Superman game where he gacks up the ball in the middle of the field w UM up and driving as a prime example of same. And of course OSU capitalized on that to change the game. In some respects, that’s just football. That’s what determines most games. But to have those things seemingly always end up breaking against UM ... no words
Better prepared, better talented, better schemed team won yesterday. The maligned Malik Harrison (look - pudding!!!) was the perfect example.
Oh well. Some day.
Body blows
Personally, I look forward to the Bible black void of nothingness in a space previously devoted to countless thoughts, and filled with feelings of joy, excitement, optimism and anticipation. The evil Urbsei just turned Ann Arbor into the Sept of Baelor and the names/faces I associated with Michigan football into the Rains of Castermere.